Rockhound
As I suspect you already know, the following is a tariff of sanctions to be expected by the three categories comprising the current Singapore population, in the event that an individual or group within any of these categories should start rocking the totalitarian PAP boat, thus requiring a message to be sent out, confirming that LKY controls absolutely everything in Singapore and will brook no interference, challenge, or promotion of alternative views, that counter his single handed helmsmanship of the ship of state:
1. Ex-Pat – Work Permit paperwork suddenly found to contain “errors” and “inconsistencies” that render the Permit invalid. Individual required to leave the country at short notice.
2. Permanent Resident – Entry and Exit privileges withdrawn as the individual(s) is/are suddenly and mysteriously found to be “undesirable” alien(s).
3. Singapore Citizen – Tax records back to the year dot are meticulously audited in conjunction with an exhaustive Internal Security Department investigation of any past statements or writings of the individual(s) that can possibly render him/her/them open to a defamation suit which, as night follows day round here, inevitably leads to victory for the government and loss and corollary bankruptcy for the individual(s). If this tack fails or quicker action is required by the regime, the Internal Security Act (Suppression of Dissent, for the use of) may be invoked and the individual(s) can simply be made to disappear. Alternatively, a naked threat of immediate imprisonment of the individual(s) and family can be made personally by LKY.
As we presently have clearly demonstrated, LKY will do what he damn well likes, any time he likes – we all await his pleasure in handing down details of the new CA which he will personally formulate, now that he has openly demonstrated that it is he who is the de-facto CEO of SIA, rather than the unfortunate, present, time-served incumbent.
As a final item, us residents of the Republic note with wry smiles the touchingly naïve suggestion made on another thread, presumably by a putative SAS contract pilot, that Alpa-S should contact the SAS pilots’ union and appraise the latter of the true situation in Singapore and Singapore Airlines, with a view to collective union torpedoing of the upcoming influx of SAS talent. Such “treason”, of course, would swiftly and summarily be dealt with as above.